We don’t need to start saving up for the future costs of battling climate change, we just have to start raising prices and recognize that we’ve been doing things the cheap way fro far too long.

And I don’t want to hear the Right Wing complain for a second, since the only reasons it’s going to cost trillions is that THEY blocked everything we tried to do to solve the problem over the past forty years. It would only cost a tenth of what it will if we had dome something back then. The climate change deniers are the reason for the high cost of fixing it now. So they should just STFU now.

Global climate change deniers along with (global) corporate/capitalist profit-mongers are the equivalent of the giant meteor that smacked down some 65 million years ago and caused the fifth mass extinction. Who would ever have thought that greedy idiots would one day prove to be the approximate equivalent of a brainless and random meteor?

Not only is climate change going to change the way we live, but primarily the way we grow food.
As water resources diminish, hydration scarcity will become the number one issue.
Except, of course for TrumpDuck. He’ll want to deport the migrant labor force that harvests the fresh food, so in order to attract Amurkin laber, we’ll have to pay a decent wage (imagine that!).
Welcome to $10.00 lb strawberries.

Even if a few of them defect — all he technically needs is 34. (My understanding has been that the structure of the treaty was such that it required a “super-fillibuster”, a full 2/3’s, as opposed to just 60%.)

Now it’s time for the jail clerk to refuse to issue her release papers, due to their deeply held religious belief that people in jail are bad people and should rot there, even if they are supposed to be allowed out by law.

And released before Huckabible could use it to grandstand with the whackadoodles. HA!

And I still want to see someone in charge of issuing gun permits refuse to issue same because they are religious pacifists. The rightwhiners supporting her would turn 180 degrees on what a county official is allowed to do so effing fast their heads would fall off.

She’s on shaky ground defying the order herself, but instructing her staff not to do it may be a separate crime in and of itself. She doesn’t have the authority to order her staff to join her in her defiance of the law. They have to make that choice themselves, and they can be fired (unlike her.)

My new snails and hermit crabs are thriving! The tank is definitely cleaner and the “nuisance algae” is shrinking in volume while the “good algae” is growing in leaps and bounds. I also had a friend who works in a rock quarry pick me up some choice bits of limestone composed of very, very, old fossils and it has already added a bunch of calcium to the tank so I am hopeful that the invertebrates will last longer than i am accustomed to.

Now I just need to talk my friend into a joint business venture. We could just sell the bare rock for $1.50 a pound, plus shipping, and undercut the competition or we could set up some culturing tanks in his basement, actually turn it into cultured “live rock” with algae growing on it, and sell it for much more.

Can you think of a better example of just how crazy the GOP has become? The Huckster is actually running on a platform based on defying the law of the land and engaging in criminal behavior. And he has yet to be laughed off the stage!

Patrick Korten, a spokeswoman for Day, said the complaints were baseless. He said the Hitler picture was part of a display to honor the service of veterans in World War Two and not to glorify the Nazi dictator.

“We went to war against Hitler,” Korten said. “His picture was there. It was not admiringly. It was him as the epitome of the enemy that we went to fight against.”

Hmm, my maternal Gran never displayed a portrait of Hitler. Her only two sons died in the war.

If she did that — deny marriage certs to same sex, interracial, and even to Christer/non-Christer couples — she’d be running for fuhrer PRESIDENT! and would enjoy massive support from ignorant bigots in every state.

She did. She denied marriage licenses to everybody because she didn’t want to be seen as discriminating against gay people (against whom she says she has no ill feelings). So, essentially, she refused to do her job, and not for any acceptable reason. And she ordered her deputy clerks to defy the judge’s orders, too, which I think might be a felony in and of itself. It ought to be. She could certainly tell them, “If any of you refuse to do this for the same reasons as I, I will stand with you.” But, no, she ordered them not to issue marriage licenses in defiance of the court order to do so. That’s something different.

Get your popcorn ready. Shep Smith went and said something smart and true. The FAUX”News” audience freaks out. I love it when on the very rare occasions they hear the truth about something and just can’t handle it.

Haw, haw! I bet the few GOoPers with a shred of remaining sanity are now going to support the Iran deal just to get rid of this embarrassment. Nah. Who am I kidding? Even if there were any GOoPers with a shred of remaining sanity they wouldn’t be stupid enough to believe Gomer about anything.

I think the bastards are going to pull it off. The charges against ACORN were equally ridiculous and came from an allied source. Planned Parenthood might survive but they will have to do it without a penny in federal funds.

Has anyone stopped to calculate how much money Kim Davis has cost the state of Kentucky?
For each marriage certificate she denies, the state loses at least $35.00
When you screw with the states revenue system, there’s sure to be blow back.

Sigh… These are the “brains” of the outfit. Let’s leave aside, for the moment, that these freaks are also doing everything in their power to deny any aid to anyone, no matter how needy. Even if one tries to dazzle them with facts they just stare at a vacant portion of empty space and say “wha…?”

That’s my fault. Not knowing he was going to post something, I was going to set up my driving post for today. Then, after seeing he had one scheduled, I didn’t bother to take mine out of drafts so I could post it this weekend. In the mean time, I guess he thought I was posting it today, so he rescheduled his for next Wednesday.

Charlie Sheen Winning (also known as CSW for short) Is a disorder in which one feels that no matter what they do, they are always “winning” at life. CSW is quite similar to insanity except with CSW, you KNOW you’re being crazy. You just don’t give a fuck.